After 13 years on the road doing standup comedy to drunken audiences, I decided to move to New York to create my own solo show. A good idea, except I had yet to learn an essential fact: Solo theater is not standup comedy. Solo theater is acting. You take the emotional journey—as every character in the play. If your play is autobiographical (and first solo shows often are), then one of the characters is you.I thought this was no big deal. I knew how to bring myself (via my persona) to the stage. I knew how to use my charisma to communicate with my audience. I just hadn't yet learned how to act. Many actors face the opposite problem. They have craft, but they don't yet know how to bring their authentic selves to the stage.The first challenge in solo theater is learning how to be yourself on stage.
- 4/2/2010
- backstage.com
Southern Gothic Novel: The Aberdeen Mississippi Sex-Slave Incident" has extended Off-Broadway through March 25th, 2009.Directed and staged by Cheryl King, Southern Gothic Novel: The Aberdeen, Mississippi Sex-Slave Incident" has been conceived and written by Frank Blocker who valiantly plays all of the eccentric citizenry caught up in the now infamous incident that tore through Aberdeen like a tornado on its way to Biloxi.
- 1/31/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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